from first album Sumé "Sumut" 1973 of this amazing Greenlandic Psych Prog Political Rock band
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n 1973 Greenland had been a part of the Kingdom of Denmark for over 200 years. The only formal education available to the country’s inhabitants was 4,000 kilometres away in Denmark. Here, far away from home, a young generation of Greenlanders found their voice. Malik Høegh and Per Berthelsen met as students in Copenhagen and founded Sumé, the first rock band to sing in Greenlandic. Their political songs decried the social injustices in Greenland and were soon to be found on every turntable in the former colony. The charismatic Malik's poetic texts made their listeners want to use their marginalised native mother tongue and become politically active. Sumé’s songs became the soundtrack of the first protests of young Greenlanders against the Danish administration and for autonomy. After tours of Greenland and Scandinavia and an offer from Procol Harum, the two musicians decided not to continue their professional career. The three albums they released before 1979 were to accompany Greenland as it became an autonomous country within the Kingdom. As this atmospheric documentary from Greenland demonstrates, Sumé’s anti-colonial message remains relevant and worth listening to today.....
Whoever said music couldn’t change the world? In 1973, Sumé, Greenland’s first ever rock band to sing in their native language was formed. Their poetic and politically charged protest songs gave a voice to the frustrations of the indigenous nation and were a catalyst for Greenland’s eventual independence from Danish colonial rule. This spectacular music documentary combines archive footage, interviews and sweeping landscape shots, against an excellent rock soundtrack, to firmly establish the ever-evolving Greenlandic identity......
In the 1970s the Greenlandic rock band Sumé released three albums that changed Greenlandʼs history. They influenced an era, boosted the self-esteem of the Greenlandic people and motivated the political process of establishing Greenlandʼs Home Rule Government and the countryʼs first uprising against the Danish colonial powers.
Itʼs a revolution youʼve probably never heard of. Not a shot was fired, not a single drop of blood spilled. Through present-day interviews and unique, previously unseen archival footage, the film brings to life a story of an indigenous peopleʼs fight for their own voice and cultural identity.......